Stars Training Academy

The Stars trainers have brought a unique skill set that includes personal experience in the field…Trainings have proven to be very interactive and engaging… Trainers have done an excellent job in tailoring each training to be site specific.” Bradley F. Grigg, MA Children’s Behavioral Health Specialist, State of Alaska

Customized training for mental health professionals and organizations

Our goal is to assist and improve how state and county systems of care and community-based organizations implement, deliver, and sustain clinical practices. Our services include consultation on training needs and we specialize in Transitional Age Youth (TAY) related services. Our trainings include Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs) and other clinical care topics. For EBPs, our training activities are designed to ensure that participants have the knowledge and skills necessary to meet the EBP’s implementation and fidelity standards. Our highly qualified trainers can train staff, conduct agency-wide programs, and/or consult and develop programs for single agencies, collaboratives, and multi-agency systems. We specialize in customizing clinical training series for departments of mental health, social service, probation, and special education. Our large-scale training programs include developing implementation plans and formulating organizational strategies to ensure practice fidelity, monitoring quality assurance, and measuring outcomes.

Evidence Based and Promising Practices Trainings

Transition to Independence Process (TIP) Model TIP

An evidence-supported “Promising Practice” developed by Dr. Hewitt “Rusty” Clark, that addresses the unique needs of young adults (14-25 years old) with emotional and behavioral difficulties (EBD). The goal of TIP is to engage young people in their own futures planning process by providing them with developmentally appropriate, non-stigmatizing, culturally competent, and appealing services and supports. Stars Training Academy offers a range of training, technical support, and consultation services designed to build agency and government capacity to implement the TIP Model in their systems of care. Click here to learn more about the TIP Model at TIPstars.org.

EQUIP

A multimodal psycho-educational intervention designed to improve social skill competence, anger control, moral reasoning and mutual self-help of chronically aggressive adolescents and young children ages 12 to 25.